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SEJUGATIO, or DISJUNCTION, is, when two members are proposed, both of which are afterwards more fully discussed ; as, Rom. xi. 22, 7 ds ovv yjpriGrbrr\ra xai utforo/Jjiccv 0g ow srri [Av rovg /7rso6v~ rag, x.r.X. — Phil. i. 15, etc., r/v'sg fisv xa i did (pQovov xai spiv, nveg 5s xai di svdoxfa v r'ov XpiGrov xripvGGovGir oi (th 1% ipi6elug — oi ds l £ a yd^rrig. Comp.
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SEMIDUPLEX ORATIO is that species of abbreviated mode of expression, when the relation of two members to one another is such, that the reader is to understand, that the one member is to be supplied from the other, and vice versa , i.e. mutually. The difference of Concisa Locutio (Abbreviated expression ; see above) and Semi- duplex Oratio consists mainly in this : that the Protasis needs to be supplied from the Apodosis, or the Apodosis from the Protasis, in A bbreviated Expression (Concisus Sermo) ; on the contrary, in Semiduplex Oratio , that the one member of the Protasis needs to be supplied from the other member of the Apodosis, and at the Same time the one member of the Apodosis must be supplied from the other member of the Protasis. In a word, Concisa Locutio puts one member, and implies the other : Semiduplex Oratio puts two members, and implies two others, either in a direct or inverse rela- tion. [Comp, my Father’s Evang. Fingerzeig, Tom. VI. p. 2, Yorr. § 194, 195.] To any one who will attend with some degree of earnestness to this distinction, it will be evident, that it is not wholly without foundation, and that it has been observed not without good reason, by the Author of the Gnomon in arranging accurately the Index of subjects. [See Titles, Concisa Locutio — Semiduplex Oratio. ] It is not, however, to be disguised, that the Gnomon (such is the proneness of the human memory to make slips in the case of more refined distinctions) marks at some passages of the New Testament Concisa Locutio , though they evidently contain a Semiduplex Oratio ; e.g. — Rom. vi. 4, ch. xv. 18; 1 Cor. x. 13; just as likewise a Semiduplex Oratio is often marked with the name of Concisus Sermo : e.g. — Matt. xiii. 49, rovg rrovyipovg lx (A gov rdv bixaiuvy i.e. (1) the bad and (2) the unjust from the midst (3) of the just and (4) good. Thou seest, Reader, two members are em- ployed, (1) and (3) ; but two others are implied, (2) and (4). — Also Mark i. 4. Also ch. xiv. 8, 6 sg^v avrvj, IrroiriGev, that is, (1) what she had (2) she bestowed; and (3) what she could (4) she did. But let us see some examples of double-membered speech , or of Semi- duplex Oratio , observed by the Author of the Gnomon : — John v. 21, uGmp yap o Tlurr\p lyslpsi rovg vtxpovg xai ^wocro/g^ ovrojg xai o T/og ovg 6e\ei ^uorroi g?: The double-membered sentence is equivalent to this :
In the same way as the Father raises the dead ( whom He will), and quickens them ; so also the Son ( raises the dead) whom He will, (and) quickens them. — John viii. 28, xai an l/xavrov notu ovdev , dX'ka xuOug sd/da^s (it o Tlarijp (iov , ravra Xa Aw* Of Myself (1)1 do
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